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MULYFICATION
Swamped In Forlorn Misery

Deepswarming Bloodmagik (2023)
Rating: 8.5/10

I’m glad these Ukranian death metallers got round to shoving their debut full-length album down our throats. The weird n’ wonderful track titles (‘Her Innocent Skin Covered With Malignant Seeds’, ‘Born As A Headless Mycospore’) are only a meteor glimpse into the fetid and distant worlds created by members Gnom (vocals and guitar), Wolfer (guitar), Bugr (bass) and Hammer (drums).

Musically, these tyrants of terror construct vast, thick walls of ashen flesh and the sirens of war which signal their rank onslaught come via hefty death trudging that is thickened by a repulsive doomy gnashing. Opener ‘Providence In Cloths’ is a miserable oozing mass of suffocating mulch, and what follows are a sludge-ridden horde of equally gelatinous cuts carved out from the fatty tissue and blubbery flesh piles that stink out the gore-drenched geysers. The vocals are mere eruptions of trickling sick; bowel originating pukes which run from the intestinal tract into the throat and projected through yellowed teeth.

‘Born As A Headless Mycospore’ quirks and slithers like a bloated slug feasting on its own slime as squelching, morose guitars ache to the sound of a dull drum. When ‘Forgotten Psychonarcotic’ brings bluster it comes as a big surprise; after all, this is a record leaden with congealed ash and fuelled by slurry.

This album labours with a sluggish grot, a foul impenetrable wall of billowing rot summed up by the hideous discharge of ‘The One That Drowned Itself In Misery’; a river of silt and sediment before the hammering percussion comes through. ‘Haunted By Ectoplasmic Wasteland’ brings more of those blustery gales which litter the eyes with debris, galloping and grisly bile. ‘Underwater Purgatory’ generates a steady pulse of putrefaction, while in contrast ‘Deyivan Paths’ exists as a writhing sponge of slop which soaks up any further signs of life.

Mulyfication is as fetid and as smothering as they come, a bestial entity boasting festering scabs, pustular sores and weeping warts, all of which combine to make a malodorous mound of twitching, quivering and ultimately murderous death metal.

Neil Arnold

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